Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-06-24
SHARP COMMENTS FROM THE PRESS.
THE DATTLE-FLAG ORDER WORSE
THAN A BLUNDER
From the Troy Times.

and are ranked in feelings by me-
MORALS of their failure. The order
was worse than a blunder-it will
be recorded against its authorities
and abettors as n crime. Such
things are never forgotten and sci.
dom forgiven. No occurrence has
lately created popular repugnance
and reprobation equal to this man.
Hesitation of sympathy with the
treason which at one time seemed
likely to wreck the Republic and
shatter the hopes of freedom.loy-
ing humanity the world over.
TREASON OFFICIALLY CONDONED.
From the Chicago Journal.
SO gross and fragrant an act OF
misprision of treason might we'll
have astonished, shocked and mad
dened the loyal people Of the ma
ton, whose prizes Of victory were
to be seized by forbidden hands,
and offered back to the rebels from
whom they we're captured in the
most holy warfare, as far as the
Unions defenders were concerned,
that ever drenched a land in blood.
THE PRESIDENT NOT AT ALL SORRY.
From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
His letter resembling the order is
couched in language which shows
Enthusiastically that he still approves
the sentiment which prompted it,
and that it is withdrawn not be-
cause he cares a particle for the in
dignant protests of the veterans of
the Grand Army, but for the rea-
son that he fails to find any legal
warrant for doing what he propos-
ed TO do.
A SUPREME NATIONAL DISGRACE.
From the Omaha Republican.
Since the Rebellion a peculiar
Onesided sentimentality has grown
up, whose nam purpose seems TO
be to pat the COnfederacy on the
back aud apologize for the patriot
ism of those who fought for the
Union. In the case OF the Demo.
cratic President 1t has gone to the
length of insulting the veterans IN
fliDpant veto messages, aud in con-
ciliating the soldiers of treasOn.-
The last move is supreme Nation
al disgrace.
THE TOOL or COPPERHEADS.
From the Brooklyn Standard Union.
The incident of the captured rebel
standards has opened the eyes of
his fellow.citizens. They now see
Mr.. Cleveland in his true light, not
as high.minded patriot and an
ardent reiormer, but as the subser-
Went tool of the Solid South and
Northern Copperheads, intent above
all things on securing for himself
second term, and panderiDg to the
prejudice Of section in a bold bid
for Southern support.
AN UNPARDONABLE OFFENCE.
From the Syracuse Journal.
The act is nullifed, bnt the mo-
tive that prompted it is too insen
sible to a healthful patriotism, and
a true.blue loyalty to the Nations
honor to be cOndoned. Let Presi.
dent Cleveland and his administra-
ton make a careful note Of this.
LISTENING TO THE SOLDIERS AT
LAST.
From the Springfield Mass Union
1t is plain from the repeated
snubs that he has given the old
soldiers OF the Union that he has
never before regarded their opin-
ions as of any consequence.
AGITATING THE WHOLE NATION.
From the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.
President Cleveland's most stupid
and more atrocious order, restoring
to the authorities Of the Southern
States all the rebel flags captured
by Union soldiers in the War of
the Rebellion, has given rise to a
ferment Of indignation and rage
everywhere among the men who
wore the blue.
SHOWN UP IN HIS TRUE LIGHT.
From the New York Mail and Express.
One of the main benefits Of the
recent cyclone Of patriotic indigna-
tion that so quickly awed and CO.
creed Mr.. Cleveland into a swift
recantation of his illegal, unwise,
uncalled for and in all ways mis-.
chlevOus and idiotic order, should
be the popular study OF Mr.. Cleve.
lands peculiar nature as revealed
by his whole conduct in regard to
the captured flags. The test that
would disclose him to be what his
antecedents guaranteed he would
be was sure to come, sooner or
later. 1t has come and found him
utterly deficient in the sentiments
and senslbilitIes that make war TO-
mantle in its conduct and in its
records; that enable ex. Union and
ex- Confederate soldiers to honor
each other, without loss Of pride or
conviction, and that have so conse.
Grated the captured flags IN the
custody of the Nation that no pow
or could take them from their places
without arOusing just such tenn
pest of patriotic wrath as alarmed
and moved even so dull and pachy-
dermatous a man as Mr.. Cleveland.
ESPECIALLY "KICKING."
From the Rochester IN. ~ Herald.
President Cleveland Will learn
after awhile that the old Union
sentiment of this country is still
alive and in good kicking condi.
ton.
sCORCHED BY THE COUNTRY'S
WRATH.
From the Cleveland Leader
It's wrath fairly blazed from ocean
to ocean, and before its whitening
heat our cOpperhead President
shrivelled into insignificance.
BOUNCE TIE TRAITORS.
From the Chicago Mail.
The Democratic Administration
has exhibited before the who lie
country lts reasonable tendencie s.
1t will bear watching. No ma u
who has q particle of loyalty o T
patriotism in his composition vii |
give support to party which
would betray the Union at the first
opportunity. Drive the traitors
from, office